The GMC Hummer EV Is an Insane $100,000+ Electric Off-Roader Truck

this is the new 2022 gmc hummer ev and it's a high performance off-roader pickup that's electric there's something i never thought i'd say a hummer that's electric but that's exactly what this is and it's a huge new vehicle for general motors a fully electric truck designed to compete with all of the other electric pickups that are coming out and today i'm going to take you on a thorough tour of this prototype model [Music] before i get started be sure to check out cars and bids which is my new online enthusiast car auction website for modern cool cars if you're looking to sell or buy a cool car from the modern era cars and bids is the place with daily auctions of great enthusiast cars check it out at carsandbids.com the link is in the description let's start with the basics electric trucks for the last few years evs have been confined primarily to hatchbacks and sedans with a few electric crossovers and sports cars but trucks are a big business here in north america so it only seems logical that the electric vehicle world would combine with the pickup truck world and it is there are a lot of new electric trucks supposedly coming out including the rivian electric pickup truck the new electric ford f-150 and of course the tesla cyber truck all coming soon and now we have this this is a revival of the hummer brand name last used for the 2010 model year in a line of very muscular very brawny very capable very gas-guzzling suvs and trucks well the hummer doesn't guzzle gas anymore it's now a fully electric pickup truck scheduled to go on sale next year with an suv version to follow soon after and it gets way cooler than that according to general motors there will be a version of this truck with around a thousand horsepower and it can go from zero to sixty in about three seconds in this massive truck and electric range will top out around 350 miles which is really impressive the truck will also feature cadillac's super cruise self-driving system which is truly excellent technology and today i'm going to review it sort of this is a pre-production model and i can't yet drive it but i'm going to take you on the most thorough tour yet of the new hummer ev and i'm going to show you as many quirks and features as i possibly can on this prototype so let's get started all right i'm going to start the quirks and features of the new hummer ev up front where you have a very brawny front end very muscular very tough looking just like you would expect from a truck like this that carries on the hummer name now you also have another distinctive feature up here that would be this light bar that goes across the entire front end light bars have become a big trend in the car industry but mostly in the back of cars well in this you have it in the front very distinctive very special look and it gets better than just lighting up and saying hummer in the middle check out what happens when you walk up to the hummer ev the light bar recognizes you as you approach now more and more automakers are doing this cool approach lighting thing that looks neat when you walk up but this is one of the more distinctive ones i've seen however that's not the coolest thing about this front light bar the coolest thing happens when you go to charge the hummer ev check this out these little bars where the headlights are actually show how much it is charged how much progress it is made charging to a full battery when it's plugged in and each little bar represents a little bit more charge until it is completely across the entire headlight and then it's completely full the truck is completely charged which is just really cool that way you can look from the outside and see exactly how much charge there is it's a neat use of the lighting in the front to make it more distinctive and from there let's talk styling in general again as you can see very brawny very muscular a lot different from what we've seen in a lot of electric vehicles up to this point so many of them have the teardrop shape that we're used to to maximize range and aerodynamics and efficiency this actually looks tough like a hummer like an off-roader like an off-road performance pickup truck thing like you would want the fact that it's electric is sort of secondary to this vehicle's styling it really looks like a tough off-roader first in an electric vehicle second you wouldn't even really know it was electric when you walk up to it it doesn't have that typical ev shape it has the brawny look we've expected from hummer vehicles in the past now i should mention general motors says the hummer ev will come with up to 35-inch tires which are pretty serious off-roading tires i'm told you can also get a 37-inch tire on there without modifying the truck although gm won't actually be offering that from the factory but it's doable for even more capability now speaking of the outside of this truck one thing i notice when i look around it is the fact that there are hummer logos pretty much everywhere all over the outside of this truck i want to make it very clear exactly what this is interestingly the hummer logos all overshadow the gmc logos even though this is technically a gmc model it's called the gmc hummer ev but you won't find many gmc logos you have one in the front and the grille and then you have another one in the back by the tail light but mostly they're really trying to revive the hummerness of this vehicle and that clearly shows with both the design and the branding on the outside and in addition to the obvious hummer logos on the outside of this truck you also have some hidden ones all throughout the exterior and the interior that sort of subtly remind you that you're in a hummer for example here's a little hummer logo fitted into the rear taillight you wouldn't necessarily know it's there unless you're looking for it although i personally prefer the one and the third brake light on the top of the tailgate you can see it's an h but again you wouldn't necessarily know that it makes that shape unless you're specifically looking for it the headlight same kind of thing little hummer logo integrated in there and there are various h's all throughout the interior and exterior just little subtle ways to remind you of its hummerness and speaking of little hidden things on the outside of this truck take a look at the c pillar behind the rear doors you can see there's this little american flag hidden here and there's one over on the other side as well it's blacked out to go along with that color trim there and again it's just another little hidden easter egg to remind you of this truck's americaness if you know where to look and when it comes to hidden easter eggs there's more to this truck than just that open up the front door and you notice on the door panel on the speaker cover you have this textured surface it turns out that is a depiction of the surface of the moon it's a relief map showing the sea of tranquility on the moon i'm not exactly sure why they've done that but i guess it's because this truck is like a new frontier for general motors just like the moon was a new frontier for mankind and it helps to emphasize this truck's capability you can also see if you look closely on that surface a little moon boot reminding you that someone did indeed traverse the moon just like this truck will traverse the terrain and check this out the dead pedal inside the driver's foot well is perfectly sized to match neil armstrong's moon boot that he used to walk with on the moon again emphasizing that moon and capability theme that's a nice little easter egg most people probably won't realize you can also see as you move further in below the center console there's a large space where you can stick cargo and again it has this texture on it for the surface of the moon same deal over on the passenger side of the door panel that same speaker cover more moon it just makes the truck a little bit more interesting inside than your typical boring regular speaker covers okay next up i am inside the hummer ev's interior for the very first time but before i talk interior i want to discuss the trim levels and the various different models you'll be able to get so this truck is launching with the edition one model which will come next fall just about a year from now not that far away now the edition one is sort of the top of the line launch version and general motors says it's all already spoken for there was so much interest in this truck when it was first shown off that people have already reserved all of the edition one models they're going to make but that'll start around 113 000 pretty pricey for a pickup truck but cheaper versions will follow after that you'll have the three x model which will start around a hundred thousand dollars then there's the two x version which will be around ninety thousand dollars and then there's just the two version which will start around eighty thousand dollars now the addition one and the three x models will both have three motors one in the front two in the back the cheaper two x and two versions will only have two motors one front one back they'll still be four wheel drive they just won't quite have the performance of the three x and the edition one but of course they'll also be cheaper now the three x and the edition one they're the ones coming first like i said edition one at the end of this year 3x in 2022 the dual motor vehicles are coming later still and in case you're wondering the hummer ev will be built in detroit but anyway let's talk interior because the inside of this vehicle is a big departure from pretty much anything else on the market today for one thing squares everywhere it is the new trend to have curves and circles and lines line up throughout the interior not in this you have squares rectangles boxes again to emphasize the tough muscular nature of this vehicle it is not intended to be soft and curvy it is intended to be boxy and brawny and that is exactly how it comes across in the interior you can also see all of the switches and buttons are very large big toggle switches to change the climate control and these settings below the climate control very large switches so they can be pressed if you're wearing work gloves or pretty much anything else you might need to do there's no small little dainty buttons anywhere in this vehicle that is not the point of the hummer ev and next up i want to move on to the back seat and the first thing i want to cover back here is rear seat room which is good you can see there's good room for my knees for my legs and for my head like in most pickup trucks today you do have good rear seat room you can take a whole family in this if you want there are a couple of neat hidden features back here for one even on the rear doors on the speaker cover you have the surface of the moon again reminding you of this truck's capability you also have integrated into the rear seats a little storage area you can open this up and you can stick items in there if you park the hummer with the windows down you want to keep something out of sight you can just put it in there it's a good hiding place and no one will know to look for it there unless of course they've seen this video now speaking of the seats another cool trick they do is the bottom part folds up and when you have it folded up you can get more stuff in this interior if you want for instance you could put a dog in here if you don't want it to be on your seats or more cargo whatever you might want so there's more space in here if you don't want rear seats you can use it for just cargo if you want to keep it safe and don't necessarily want it in the bed by the way one thing about the hummer ev i haven't seen mentioned anywhere else i'm just noticing it for the first time it looks like the rear window rolls down some pickup trucks have this some don't but it's a nice feature to have you drop the windows you drop the rear window you get a good breeze going through and it's cool to see it looks like this rear window rolls all the way down i definitely hope that makes production i love that feature and speaking of being in this truck and having the air flow all around i should mention that this truck is essentially a convertible that's because the roof is almost completely removable general motors calls it the sky view roof it's separated into several different panels which can be completely removed taken off and then the truck can be completely open you don't even care if the back window rolls down or not because you have full openness all around you which is always cool to have when you're off-roading makes you feel a little bit more naturey and out in the world now i had read that the truck had removable roof panels but something i didn't realize is that when they're in place they are glass so even if you have the panels on you can still see through them and see the world all around you even if you don't want to remove the panels that makes it feel like a big sunroof in here and it helps make it seem less claustrophobic more open since you don't just have windows on the sides but also above you both front and back it's a cool touch and i like how it looks next up i want to move on to the bed which general motors says will be offered with a power tonneau cover meaning that if you want to put stuff in the bed but you don't want it to just be completely exposed you will have a cover that can slide over the bed and cover it and so it'll kind of function like a trunk if you want it to and it's power operated so you don't have to screw with any zippers or latches or whatever you just push a button and it goes over the bed and that is what you would expect from a luxury off-road performance electric pickup truck and by the way on the subject of this bed it's important to point out it is five feet long and 48 inches wide so you can stick a five foot by four foot sheet of plywood or whatever you want in the bed and this truck includes gmc's latest tailgate design that's like the swiss army knife of tailgates it can do practically anything i have demonstrated it in my gmc sierra video which i will link below but the point here is that with the tailgate in its fully extended position you can increase your bed length to almost seven feet which gives you even more ability to carry stuff around in the back of your hummer ev but even cooler than the bed situation is the front situation this is an electric pickup truck meaning there's no gasoline engine meaning the front end doesn't have to be taken up by a giant powertrain and all of its components and so the front end can rise up electronically as you can see here and it's a large storage area general motors tells me the production version front trunk will rise a little faster than this but the point stands you have a power front trunk in your hummer ev for even more storage and check this out that sky view roof i told you about earlier with the removable panels those panels can fit inside the front trunk so if you're off-roading you decide it's a nice day you want to remove your panels you can stick them in the front trunk and take them with you and you don't have to compromise your bed space to do that that is pretty smart thinking and there is oh so much more to cover now a lot has been made about the fact that this truck can crab walk it has four wheel steering which basically means that it can drive diagonally or horizontally not just forward or backwards which is pretty impressive that's a neat trick and gm has also pointed out that it makes this giant truck feel a lot more maneuverable in tight spaces not just off-road but tight parking lots or tight city areas because four-wheel steering will make it drive a lot more compact feeling in tight spaces but with as much as people have been talking about the crab walking they've left behind some of the other really impressive capabilities of this pickup truck for instance it's going to offer air suspension which is always good for off-roaders because it improves your ground clearance and in this truck with the air suspension fully all the way up you have almost 16 inches of ground clearance which is an unbelievable number it should be able to roll over pretty much anything with that figure also unbelievable to me in terms of this truck's capabilities with the air suspension fully raised you will have an approach angle of almost 50 degrees that is an absolutely insane figure for an off-roader to give you a little context the jeep wrangler rubicon has a 44 degree approach angle and that is crazy ford couldn't even beat that with the bronco that they were designing from the ground up this thing beats it easily because it can get so much ground clearance because there's so little space between the tire and the front of the vehicle really impressive should make it really capable now also on the subject of capability like i mentioned 35-inch tires will be available but you can get 37's in here aftermarket without having to hack up the truck but gm won't offer them what gm will offer is front and rear differential lockers although the rear locker operates in kind of an unusual way there are two rear motors like i mentioned before and instead of a true differential locker you can just lock the rear motors so they can spin the wheels at the same rate this is the reality of the future we're living in two rear motors in a pickup that functions like an old school differential who could have ever predicted it next up still on the subject of capabilities here is an incredible one this truck offers all the cameras you can already get in the gmc sierra pickup truck which i have already said in my review of that truck is one of the best camera systems in the entire car industry but the hummer ev takes it even further it has two more cameras mounted under the truck one front and one rear and the theory here is it will help you off-road even more than all the other cameras already do by showing exactly what you're about to run over and exactly where your tires and the bottom of your truck are on a trail now i asked general motors well wait a minute these are going to get damaged what is that about and they said they positioned them perfectly in places that are the least likely to get damaged underneath the truck but they do concede damage as possible and so hummer evs will come with extra camera lenses in case there is damage you could just pop a new lens on and continue driving and looking through your off-roading cameras the especially cool thing for serious off-roaders with these cameras is they let you see the inside of your front and rear tires so you can use the regular camera system to see the outside of the tire and now these new ones let you see inside meaning you'll know exactly where your tires are on each obstacle it's like you have your own spotter inside the truck you don't have to make your buddy get out and point this way that way on the trail you can see everything yourself just sitting inside and one more capability feature i absolutely have to discuss and that would be tire deflation assist this truck allows you to set a desired tire pressure and then it will deflate the tires for you so if you're gonna go off-roading rock crawling or driving on the beach you don't have to get out and sit there at each individual valve stem letting air out of the tire i have done that 10 million times the truck will do it all for you and gm even tells me that on your my gmc app you can watch the tire pressures going down in real time until they reach your desired setting and then you can just drive off now this got me curious i asked can the tires be re-inflated again because this was a capability that the old hummer h1 and the old humvees had gm says no it does not have an inflation system just deflation if you want to inflate again you'll have to go back to one of those gas station air pumps or use a compressor but once again it will tell you exactly where your pressure is and it'll let you know when you've reached your desired pressure so you don't have to get out of gauge and measure it every few minutes while you're filling the air back up by the way since we're talking capabilities one other cool easter egg on the outside of the hummer ev is under the running board where there's a little thumbs up so what's that doing there well if you roll over the truck the thumbs up becomes a thumbs down because you have made a serious mistake but as long as the thumbs up is pointing up then all is okay this is something most people won't notice but it is a fun little thing to see when you see one of these on the road you can look under there and find the thumbs up unless it's flipped over but this truck isn't just about off-road performance it also has really impressive on-road performance and some amazing technology which i will cover now i want to start by discussing the launch control system which general motors described to me as not just launch control but basically like a whole launch experience they call it watts to freedom that's what w-a-t-t like kilowatts and when you activate the launch control system several things happen at once for one thing the hummer ev lowers to get as close to the ground as possible to be as fast as possible then sounds start playing in the interior to enhance the drama of the experience through the speakers there's a sound that accompanies your launch control activation then the seat starts vibrating because in general motors vehicles the seat will alert you if you're about to hit something or you're going over a lane line while they're using that technology when you activate launch control it'll start vibrating again to enhance the drama of the experience and then once all of that is done this will do 0 to 60 in three seconds despite the fact that it is insanely massive you know i owned an old hummer an h1 and it did 0-60 in about 25 seconds and it's crazy to imagine this being a continuation of the hummer lineage but it is and it's really impressive and it seems even more capable than the old school one and nowhere is it more capable than the old-school hummer or other general motors vehicles than in terms of technology there is an amazing amount of tech in this interior and in this vehicle i already mentioned some of the off-roading stuff but it goes a lot further than that for one thing you have a 13.4 inch center screen in here now this screen doesn't work it's in sort of a demo mode but you get the idea this giant upright almost looks like a movie theater screen for the people sitting inside absolutely massive huge and within reach of everybody and i'm excited to play around with it looks very different from what you get in other gm vehicles and speaking of the screen like i mentioned i can't use this one but they didn't mention one cool easter egg of the screen that would be the virtual auxiliary switches a lot of new trucks come with auxiliary switches that aren't hooked up to anything and then if you want to put on a roof light bar or a winch you can run electrical to your switch and then press the switch and it will work pretty simple this has them in the screen and there are various different pictures that you can use to go along with things for example you can see aux 4 looks like a light that's pretty simple for an auxiliary light but aux 2 looks like a bigfoot and you can configure your virtual auxiliary switches to be whatever you want them to be and they'll always be on the screen that way you want to wire up your winch you don't have a physical button but instead it's on your screen and it might include a diagram of a bigfoot if that's what you want and speaking of screens in here there's also a massive screen behind the steering wheel for the gauge cluster and you can see again this is in demo mode but very high quality very crisp and very different from what you get in other general motors vehicles this is clearly the future in here now a couple interesting things in this screen they told me it will show you all sorts of off-road metrics like your current wheel travel how far they are off the ground your compass whether your differentials lock your degrees of angle blah blah blah most off-roaders have that stuff but there are some cool ones that i think might be unique to the hummer ev for one thing you have a g-force meter in here which you don't often see on an off-roader pickup but then again this is also a 1000 horsepower pickup so you might be pulling some g's and there's also a drift meter in here which general motors tells me will measure how many degrees you get the tail out when you're drifting this vehicle so you can compare to your friends like oh my drift meter says i got the tail out even further than you did in your hummer ev i've seen drift modes before but never a meter encouraging you to be driftier and finally another cool piece of technology in here this dial in the center controls your various different drive modes that's not all that unusual most vehicles have that now the cool thing here is that if you're in rock crawling mode and you're going slowly and you've got a lot of braking happening it will use the braking happening during rock crawling to re-gen and provide more energy to the battery for a longer range gm was pretty proud of this the fact that they've made this cool off-roading mode actually benefit the electric vehicle component of this car too they said there are various different systems in here that are sort of the best of all worlds in terms of both electric vehicle-ness and off-roading and the combination of the two which is pretty cool now one final item worth noting in terms of the electricness of the hummer ev like i said the maximum range is about 350 miles that's a pretty healthy number general motors has not yet released the range figures for the lesser trim levels so 350 miles probably the top trim level the highest range and again that's an estimate in a simulation not necessarily a real world epa dictated figure now that range is pretty impressive but just as amazing is the charging capability of this truck it can take 800 volts 350 kilowatt fast charging which will add a hundred miles of range in just 10 minutes which is crazy you don't have to stop for long to get fully rearranged of course actually having 800 volts available is not something you're probably gonna have at your house at least anytime soon so it can also support lesser infrastructure but the capability is there for some serious fast charging which is pretty impressive and next up another impressive piece of technology in the new hummer ev is super cruise this is general motors self-driving system it's akin to tesla's autopilot although in my opinion super cruise is even better in fact i think supercruise is the best autonomous driving system on the market today as long as you're on one of its mapped roads gm says they've mapped over 200 000 miles of roads where supercrews can be used and it allows you to go completely hands off the wheel as long as you're still sitting there paying attention which you should be for all of the autonomous driving systems but it's a great feature it hasn't made it into too many general motors products yet but it's coming into this one which is great news now before i wrap up i want to do one more thing with this truck and that is i want to give my own opinion of it a lot of you have been asking me what i think of the hummer ev and i showed you all around in this video but i haven't really told you my thoughts on it so far so here they are after spending several hours around it seeing it in person seeing the numbers hearing about what it can do i have to say i'm really really impressed now let me preface this when i heard that general motors would be bringing back the hummer brand with electric i must admit i was very skeptical i thought they would screw it up which is what a lot of automakers do when they try to revive something as something else witness for example the mitsubishi eclipse crossover suv but actually in my opinion they did better with this than i expected them to this is like the new ford bronco you had some hopes you thought they'd mess it up and then they actually knocked it out of the park a thousand horsepower 0-60 in three seconds and all this capability and technology this is seriously impressive and i love the brawny macho tough styling on the outside they didn't soften the look of the hummer in order to create an electric hummer now i have owned several vehicles that put me in the target demographic for this one the original hummer i had one of those a land rover defender a mercedes g wagon i like boxy off-road vehicles and this is one that i really like i can't believe the performance numbers i like how it looks i think they've done an excellent job and i also think that all the hype surrounding this car over the last couple of weeks shows that a lot of car enthusiasts think so too there wasn't very high expectations for general motors to revive the hummer brand but they have vastly exceeded anything that we thought they would do and among the onslaught of all the other electric vehicle pickup trucks this one seems to be the most impressive for its technology its capability its performance but also for the fact that it's further along than all the other ones seem to be the cyber truck was shown off a year ago and seemed nowhere close to production ready the rivian they keep showing pictures and videos but well i'm not sitting in one of those this is going to be out next year and in here it certainly looks like they know what they're doing now i'm assuming they'll get it to market when they say they will and deliver on all the promises they've made for capability range performance but if they do that this is a big hit and i suspect this will be considered the ev truck to beat not necessarily the weird cyber truck or any other one which may or may not exist they have a long way to go to actually get this to market but that's part of the vehicle development process and frankly they're further along than i expected they would be and they're further along than their rivals seem to be and so those are the quirks and features of the new gmc hummer ev the electric truck market looks like it's going to be tremendously competitive and this looks like it's going to be a fantastic challenger with amazing capability and range and performance and technology and i truly cannot wait until production versions of this already so i can drive one but for now there's your most thorough tour yet of the quirks and features of the latest hummer so you don't have to get out of gauge and measure it every few minutes while you're filling the air back up up

Channel: Doug DeMuro

Views: 2,684,544

Rating: 4.8218741 out of 5

Keywords: hummer ev, 2022 hummer, new hummer, hummer review, hummer ev review, 2022 hummer ev, 2022 hummer ev review, new hummer review, gmc hummer ev, gmc hummer ev review, doug demuro, demuro, doug de muro

Id: Z2YLEPFa750

Length: 31min 41sec (1901 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/whiskysage2]

On one hand, yes, everyone is right. This GMC Hummer is a big, stupid rich boy's toy.

On the other hand, people weren't exactly going all-in on the Spark and Volt. GM has signaled for years it's getting serious about EV production. The Hummer says that they are actually serious. Stuff that was developed for this truck is going to wind up influencing research & design for its other cars and trucks.

[u/pryan886]

The launch control is basically a theme park ride now. At least it’s appropriately named WTF.

I’m sure it will feel like one of those magnetic launch roller coasters that shoot you out of the station like a rail gun. 0-60 in 3 seconds for this behemoth is absolutely insane.

[u/rogersmj]

I’m just trying to figure out where the hell Doug is in this video. Some kind of warehouse/parking garage with Porsches, a C8, a GTR, an American flag, a giant Cadillac banner with...Korean?...on it...and a prototype Hummer.

EDIT: It kind of looks like it might be a staging area for a car show.

[u/andrewmackoul]

Anyone catch the millage on that prototype? 1992 miles.

In 1992, AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 Humvee vehicle to the public under the brand name "Hummer"

[u/tyrannosaurus_r]

I think it has all the Moon stuff on it because GM actually made the moon rover!

[u/AltrusticPear]

Doug, if you look under the floor mat (where you said it’s perfectly sized for Neal Armstrong’s boot), you can actually see the moon boot print where you rest your foot. It’s pretty neat.

[u/SevenPlaySix]

I'm interested in how will the Hummer compare to a Rivian or the Tesla Cybertruck (assuming it ever comes out, lol).

This and the C8 Corvette are the only halo cars GM produced in years, so they better not screw up.

[u/nukelauncher95]

There's references to the moon because GM designed the moon buggy along with Boeing.

I love this truck. If I could afford it, I'd buy it on day one.

[u/UnitedMario]

The idea of silently manuevering over offroad terrain is pretty awesome. You'll be able to hear exactly how the tires are crunching over rocks on a trail. I have to imagine EVs will make for popular off-roaders once these trucks hit the market.